In veered

Question 1

when was in verrem

Answer 1

70 BC

Question 2

why was Verres on Trial

Answer 2

extorting 400,000 sesrerces from Sicily whilst serving as govenor 73-71

Question 3

judge

Answer 3

glabrio

Question 4

defence speech

Answer 4

Hortensius

Question 5

how many speeches did cicero prepare against verses

Answer 5

5

Question 6

what social class was versed

Answer 6

-patrician/optimate

Question 7

where was he governor

Answer 7

cicily

Question 8

what court was it in

Answer 8

extortion court

Question 9

addressing someone

Answer 9

apostrophe

Question 10

when you say your not going to do something

Answer 10

praeteritio

Question 11

what did cicero say verses was guilty of whilst he was praetor in rome

Answer 11

• destruction of sacred temples and public works

Question 12

How verses delays the trial (friends)

Answer 12

• attempts to delay it to 69
• so that he can be prosecuted when his friends Hortensisu and Mettelus would be consuls and His other friend Mettelus would be in charge of the extortion court
• shows Verses doesn’t believe a fair trial would find him not guilty

Question 13

How verses delays the trial (false prosecution)

Answer 13

• cicero asked for 110 days to collect evidence and prepare for the triall
• verses created a fake prosecution of the governor of Achaea in which he asks for 108 days
• this is so the trial would start 2 days before ciceros and he could drag it out so that ciceros would start late

Question 14

How verres delayed the trial (friend prosecution)

Answer 14

• tried to get his own friend to prosecute him

Question 15

Verres’ attempts of bribery in the trial

Answer 15

• ‘he tried to buy off the whole panel of judges’
• he attemptd to use this to ruin cicero’s chances o being aedile
• he offered someone 500,000 if they would do so

Question 16

cicero exposing corruption in the courts

Answer 16

‘in these courts, with their present membership, even the worst criminal will never be convicted provided he has money”

‘It was now clear for all to see how impotent our courts had become’

Question 17

cicero saying how corrupt verses is

Answer 17

‘dangerous crisis’

‘Verres has sacked the treasury. He has devastated Asia and Pamphylia’

“Utter scorn and contempt for the senatorial order

Question 18

cicero trying to restore the senate

Answer 18

‘I am eager to remove your bad reputation - which is as much mine as yours’

‘Pronounce a just and scrupulous verdict against Verres, and you will keep the good name which ought to be yours’

Question 19

quote about verses delaying the trial

Answer 19

“Verres’ real aim was that the time I needed for the case against himself should be occupied by other business

“Your purpose is to postpone your speech”

Question 20

cicero talking bout how great he is

Answer 20

I…spent fifty days on a careful investigation of the entire island of Sicily;

Question 21

quotes of what verses did in cicily

Answer 21

”properties of farmers robbed of countless sums”

Roman citizens were tortured and put to death like slaves”

“timid, crushed Sicilians

Question 22

threat to the senate

Answer 22

We senators will lose our courts’

“Will a court of Senators convict a guilty man if he is rickh

Question 23

flattery to the judges

Answer 23

such distinguished and impressive panel of judges as in sitting today.’

Question 24

crimes verses comitted

Answer 24

extortion

sexual assault

steals stuff from temples, only relics, statues, paintings

goes into law courts in sicily and lets bad ppl off so they support him

takes land